<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
            version="1.0" xmlns:user="urn:user" 
exclude-result-prefixes="user">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
  <ms:script implements-prefix="user" 
xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" language="C#" >
    <ms:using namespace="System.IO" />
    <ms:using namespace="System.Net" /><![CDATA[
    public string GetEntityAsBase64(XPathNodeIterator iter, string href) {
        iter.MoveNext();
        Uri baseUri = new Uri(iter.Current.BaseURI);
        Uri resolved = new Uri(baseUri, href);
        WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(resolved);
        using (Stream stream = req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream()) {
            MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream();
            int size = 10000;
            byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
            int len = 0;
            while ((len = stream.Read(buffer, 0, size)) > 0) {
                mem.Write(buffer, 0, len);
            }
            mem.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            return Convert.ToBase64String(mem.GetBuffer(), 
Base64FormattingOptions.InsertLineBreaks);
        }
    }]]>
    </ms:script>
  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" />

  <xsl:template match="/attitude">
    <imagedata>
      <xsl:value-of select="user:GetEntityAsBase64(., 'image.jpg')"/>
    </imagedata>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I created and debugged this using the Visual Studio 2005 XSL debugger :-)


"Harald Schmitt" <HaraldSchmitt@d...> wrote in message 
news:C1BF4145-DD48-4760-89DC-589222C44A91@m......
> This is not very nice. Because your nxslt tool is very good.
> Is there another way to get the content of an unparsed entity  with .net
> within an xslt script?
> I have an xml document with a dtd. I have the name of the unparsed entity 
> in
> an attributeand an the corresponding unparsed entity in the doctype
> decleration. I have to get the path of the (image) file (normally by
> unparsed-entity-uri) and encode it with base64 (I found your solution with
> C#) and embedd it in the output xml doc.
> Any suggestion?
>
> "Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Harald Schmitt wrote:
>> > Thanks, I hope this will be fixed. For now I have to go back to msxsl 
>> > 4.0.
>>
>> Unfortunately not in .NET 2.0 :(
>>
>> -- 
>> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCAD]
>> http://www.xmllab.net
>> http://blog.tkachenko.com
>>